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Follow UsLuke Wright, England men’s selector revealed five uncapped players when he named the squad for the white-ball affair against Australia on August 26 (Monday). The three-match T20I and five-match ODI tour of the Aussies kicks off with the T20Is, starting September 11 in Southampton.
Meet the new faces on the English block before the series gets underway.
The Warwickshire all-rounder has impressed all with his big-hitting skills in The Hundred. The 20-year-old might have scored only one fifty in the 100-ball competition, but has three to his name in the last 10 T20s for his county side. Part of the England U-19 World Cup squad in 2022, Bethell looks like a natural replacement for Moeen Ali as he bats left-handed and bowls a slow left-arm spin.
In 32 T20s, the southpaw has hit 544 runs at a strike rate of 141 and an average of 24.13. He has seven wickets to his kitty at an economy rate of 7.69. In List A cricket, Bethell has found more success with the ball, taking 15 wickets in 16 games.
England have not had a lot of hit-the-deck bowlers in their armoury, but Turner is in that mould. He generates pace off the deck and would be well suited to perform in bouncy conditions like Australia and South Africa. In four games that he played for the Trent Rockets in the Hundred, Turner took five wickets and looked very impressive.
The 23-year-old has so far played 22 T20s and picked up 36 wickets at an average of 16.97 and an economy rate of 8.11 which are considered gold standard in this day and age. The Hampshire bowler is named in both the ODI and T20I squads to face Australia.
Essex’s Jordan Cox, after being first picked in the Test series against Sri Lanka, has been called up for the limited-overs fixtures against the Aussies too. The 23-year-old has featured in 52 first-class matches and 102 T20s. However, he has just played four List-A. To celebrate his call-up to the national side, Cox smashed 124-ball 141 in a County Championship match against Hampshire. The right-handed batter has a strike rate of 137.56 and an average of 27.36 in T20s with eight half-centuries to his name.
Another England U19 star from the 2022 World Cup, where the side made it to the final but lost to India, Dan Mousley, received his maiden call-up to the senior national side as well. Much like Bethell, he is another guy in the mould of Moeen and Liam Livingstone. Moseley, who has featured in 33 first-class and 46 T20 matches, took 3/9 in a The Hundred encounter playing for Birmingham Phoenix against Trent Rockets this year.
Mousley, an off-spinner and a left-handed batter, is a big-hitting prospect down the order, as he has a strike rate of 137 and has smashed 37 sixes in 44 T20 innings. More than a good enough bowler, Moysley has 43 scalps to his name in the shortest format of the game. Like his mate from the U-19 days, Bethell, Mousley has been picked only for the T20Is.
Six feet and seven inches tall, Josh Hull has a towering personality running into bowl, literally. He has a no-jump run-up, but instead of being a hit-the-deck bowler considering his height advantage, he is more into the mould of New Zealand pacer Kyle Jamieson, who can also swing the ball if necessary.
Much like Cox, Hull also received his maiden call-up in the red-ball format as he was named as Mark Wood’s replacement for the remaining two matches of the three-match Test series against Sri Lanka.
The lanky pacer has 17 wickets in nine List-A games. Hull was part of the Leicestershire squad that lifted the domestic One-Day cup in 2023. In 19 T20s, the left-arm quick has 24 wickets at an average of 17.12.
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